Impossible to Forget

by Imogen Clark

people who knew you when you were learning to know yourself had a more honest picture. They’d seen you when you were not yet entirely formed, when your outer shell hadn’t quite sealed around you. As a result,

there was less pretending. Friends like that would never let you get away with the stories that you could spin around yourself with newer people. And even though that could be scarily exposing, it was also good to be around them. You could skip past all that small talk and pleasantries stuff and cut straight to the heart of whichever matter needed to be discussed.

Life wasn’t like a see-saw where you could only be at the top if someone else was at the bottom.

find that if something is important to you, it has a way of staying in your memory,’